The auction of furniture and art from the home of singer Sting and his producer wife Trudie Styler in Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster, was held at Christie’s London on February 24 - with total earnings of over £3 million.

The couple are decluttering for their move to Battersea Power Station.

Sting's furniture auction and other fabulous A-list homes...

Sting's furniture auction and other fabulous A-list homes...

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Singer Sting's hotly anticipated furntiture and art auction

From £1,000 to £500,000 per lot

Singer Sting and his producer wife Trudie Styler auctioned off their prized possessions from their former home in Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster - just in time for their big move to Battersea Power Station.

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A coveted collection

From £1,000 to £500,000 per lot

Items included an art collection containing works by Picasso and Matisse, furniture by Jacques Adnet and George Nakashima and Line Vautrin and Piero Fornasetti mirrors.

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Snap up something from Sting's private collection

From £1,000 to £500,000 per lot

Gathered over a 20-year period, the lots also included George Nakashima and Jean Besnard ceramics and a Steinway piano.

Rockstar Sting, who gives a cameo performance in the new Zoolander film, is thought to have sold the Queen Anne’s Gate property for £19 million.

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J-Lo's California bolthole is on the market

£9.9 million

American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez is selling her 17,000sq ft mansion in Hidden Hills, California, which comes complete with a resort-style pool, rolling lawns and children’s play areas. Indoors, J-Lo’s favourite spots are thought to be the panelled library and beautiful master suite with a sitting room, walk-in-wardrobes and large terrace.

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Rent Queen Bey's Super Bowl retreat

£7,000 per night

After stealing the show at the Super Bowl at the beginning of the month, Beyoncé spent the weekend relaxing in one of Airbnb’s most glamorous properties. The singing superstar, who will be bringing her Formation tour to London in July, Instagrammed pictures of the five-bedroom house in San Francisco Bay. She seemed to be enjoying the infinity pool and fire pit and had access to a private spa, bar and a games room.

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Snap up a home next to Our House

£600,000

Stephenson Street in north-west London provided the backdrop for movies including The Ipcress File and The Likely Lads, and for the pop video for Our House by Madness. Next month the Victorian terrace hits the big screen again in Hugh Jackman’s new film, Eddie the Eagle.
A two-bedroom period cottage has just come on the market in the street for £600,000. It overlooks woodland, while a community urban orchard is planned for spring. There’s scope for improvement... and who knows who will be filming on the doorstep next?

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Model Mark snaps up a Pyrenees ski flat

£919,000

Mark Vanderloo, said to be the inspiration for “really, really, really ridiculously good-looking” movie male model Derek Zoolander, has just bought a retreat in Andorra in the Pyrenees near this three-bedroom flat in the village of El Tarter which overlooks the ski slopes of Grandvalira. Hollywood actor Ben Stiller is thought to have based his character in Zoolander and its sequel, now in London cinemas, on the Dutch model.

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Miley's home No 3 is a Malibu retreat

£1.74 million

Pop singer Miley Cyrus has bought a four-bedroom Malibu mansion in more than two acres of grounds, with connected outdoor dining space and swish kitchen. Built in 1958, the bedrooms could do with an update — but it’s essentially the perfect summer retreat.

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A £701k price drop for Ricky's Hampstead home

£6,999,000

Comedian Ricky Gervais has reduced the asking price of his four-bedroom home in Hampstead, originally listed for sale for £7.7 million last September. Gervais turned the lower level of the house into a spa area with an ozone swimming pool, gym and a golf drive. But after living there for nearly 10 years and completing renovations, the Extras star decided to start a new chapter. He recently moved into a £10.5 million mansion nearby with his long-time partner, the best-selling author Jane Fallon.

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Perrie's mixing with the Surrey set

£5 million

Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards has sold the six-bedroom north London home she bought with ex-fiancé Zayn Malik last summer. After the couple split, Edwards, 22, invested in a £1 million four-bedroom bungalow with a pretty garden in Surrey after the break-up, and has spent the past few months giving the place a more feminine look.

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A modernist marvel

£400,000

Architecture fans are expected to form an orderly queue at Prospect House in edgy Elephant and Castle to view a two-bedroom flat on the fifth and sixth floors. The block was designed by Sir Leslie Martin and Sir Colin St John Wilson, architects of the Royal Festival Hall and the British Library respectively. Remodelled by RI BA award-winning White Table architects, the flat featured in Grand Designs Magazine.

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Rent Leo's Palm Springs home

£3,100 a night

While best actor Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio travels the world promoting current movie The Revenant, his home in Palm Springs, California is available to rent . DiCaprio bought the six-bedroom house with pool, tennis court and guesthouse in 2014 for £3.6 million, after filming The Wolf of Wall Street. If you fancy a sprinkling of stardust, you can rent it through surterreproperties.com.

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From Stones party pad to family home

£3.65 million

Rolling Stones veterans Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, both lived in Wick Cottage, Richmond, in the Seventies. Once a rock’n’roll party hotspot, the five-bedroom, Grade I-listed former Georgian coach house now feels more like a family home. Close to Richmond Park, it overlooks Petersham Meadows and the bend in the Thames, famously painted by the great landscape artist JMW Turner (1775-1851).

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Grace's Cannes castle

£37.5 million

Grace Kelly fell in love with Castle of la Croix des Gardes, on the French Riviera, while filming the 1955 movie To Catch A Thief with co-star Cary Grant. The house has Florentine-style façades and gardens overlooking the Bay of Cannes. There are 13 bedrooms, 24 manicured acres, guest houses, staff quarters, an orangery, infinity pool, winter garden and a Turkish lodge. The house is on the market for the first time since it was bought by the owner of Perrier water in 1960.

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Design home on Notting Hill border brings flair to the market

£2,295,000

A London home refurbished by Missoni hotels designer Eva Gundersen is on the market. She revamped and extended the colourful two-bedroom duplex, in a stucco-fronted building just off Westbourne Grove. The apartment covers 1,100sq ft, has underfloor heating, a 45ft private garden, a smart kitchen and a new timber staircase that leads to elegant and spacious first-floor rooms with high ceilings.

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Gywneth and her pals take a trip down Mexico way

£28,000 a week

Gwyneth Paltrow recently visited the beaches of Punta Mita, Mexico, for a relaxing getaway with her children and close friends. The actress' six-bedroom rented villa offers two outdoor infinity pools and a cinema, while meals are prepared by the estate chef. Other A-listers who have recently visited the area include Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Demi Moore and Orlando Bloom.

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Cate raises the style stakes in East Sussex

£3 million

Now that Cate Blanchett has bought a family home in Crowborough, the town is set to become a new celebrity hotspot. Snap up a glamorous property nearby while you can. Millwood Designer Homes is launching two new country houses, Blueberry Barn and Rosehip House, each with a guide price of £1.3 million. Interested buyers will have to wait patiently to be neighbours with Blanchett, Oscar-nominated for Carol, as completion is not expected until autumn next year.

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Friends star Matthew Perry's West End rental is for sale

£6,995,000

Matthew Perry is currently renting in the West End while in town for his new play, The End of Longing. A short stroll from the theatre, the flat is in a new development from Manhattan Loft Corporation. Natural limestone, zinc panels, bay windows and Juliet balconies add to the charm of the ultra-modern apartment. Perry is renting the glam residence for the duration of his West End stay, but it is on the market so he may even consider buying it.

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Has De Niro got his eye on London?

£13 million

Robert De Niro is reportedly about to open a boutique hotel in London. If it is anything like The Greenwich Hotel — the Hollywood superstar’s luxurious venture in New York — we are in for a treat. The Academy hotel in Gower Street, Bloomsbury, is for sale and might make suitable premises. With a little De Niro stardust, this could be the new celebrity magnet.

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Calvin Harris stands to make a healthy profit on the Sunset Strip

£6.9 million

Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has put his LA home on the market. The musician and model bought the four-bedroom property in 2013 for £4.8m. As well as the main house, there is a separate two-storey guesthouse in the grounds. An infinity swimming pool, spa space and outdoor lounge with banquette seating make it the perfect party spot.

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Buy a TV chef's little Hackney flat

£435,000

TV chef Rachel Khoo is selling her two-bedroom flat in Hackney. Fans of Khoo’s BBC2 series The Little Paris Kitchen will recognise her stamp in her home’s pretty tiles, countless shelves for cookbooks and baking ingredients — and in the great job she has done in making the most of the modest 539sq ft space.

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BBC's Alice Bhandhukravi is selling up in Kensington

£1.5 million

BBC's London News anchor, Alice Bhandhukravi, has listed her stylish Kensington home for £1.5 million. Accessed via a private courtyard, the two-bedroom home has four floors and a balcony. Bhandhukravi also owns the house next door and has planning permission to join the two, and for a roof terrace.

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Rent a racing ace's first London home

£4000 a week

Long before electronic boys’ toys became fashionable, former Formula One ace Sir Stirling Moss OBE packed his townhouse in Shepherd Market with time-saving gadgetry and a wealth of audiovisual gizmos. The cute and characterful home has three bedrooms, a cinema, two private terraces and a walled garden. Moss, 86, bought the place in 1954 as his sporting career blossomed, for just £12,000. He fell in love with the area and still lives nearby in another hi-tech home which he built on a derelict plot he bought in 1961.

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Highgate is a star attraction for Arsenal players

£14 million

Former Arsenal winger and model Freddie Ljungberg — who is thought to be returning to Arsenal as the Under-15s coach — and his wife, Natalie Foster are said to be looking at homes in the leafy north London village of Highgate. Perhaps this Victorian mansion, for sale for a cool £14m, could take their fancy...

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Tina puts her money upstairs

£6.5 million

Comedy actress Tina Fey has bought an apartment in Manhattan to expand the one she already owns downstairs, reports say. The flat has a private lift entrance and two dozen newly installed windows overlooking the scenic Hudson River. The Mean Girls actress and her husband, the composer Jeff Richmond, are said to be keen to combine their new purchase in Upper West Side with the property they own directly below it, to create one vast duplex.

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Work from home in a TV showstopper flat

£2.15 million

This super-smart live/work warehouse apartment in Dingley Place, EC1, appeared in TV series such as The Honourable Woman, which starred Maggie Gyllenhaal. The lateral living space has high ceilings and original factory details and measures close to 2,000 square feet over the ground and lower-ground floors. The front half of the ground floor can be sectioned off from the rear, with full-height sliding doors, making it ideal for working from home.

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Will it be third time lucky for Danielle Lloyd?

£1.75 million

It's that moment sellers fear most — just as model Danielle Lloyd was about to exchange on her home on the outskirts of Birmingham, the buyer backed out. This is the second time the former wife of footballer Jamie O’Hara has hit a selling snag with the modern mansion. Now it is for sale again, this time at £1.75 million.

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Kim and Kanye want to make wine

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are renovating a vineyard in the grounds of their Californian estate so they can produce their own wine.
Not satisfied with one home in the prestigious gated Hidden Hills development in LA, the reality TV star and her rapper husband bought the four-bedroom house next door to their faux-French mansion last year.

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A fabulous townhouse on south London's most coveted road

£1.85 million

This four-bedroom Georgian townhouse in Camberwell Grove, which featured in the Bafta award-winning BBC documentary series The Secret History of Our Streets, is for sale. Singer Florence Welch, of the band Florence and the Machine, grew up in the neighbourhood.

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Hotelier-to-the-stars

From £1.75 million

Ian Schrager, whose London EDITION hotel has made its mark on the West End in Berners Street, has turned his hand to property development in New York. A-list fans of Schrager’s hotel group include Victoria “ex-Posh Spice” Beckham and Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, so 160 Leroy Street, his new project in West Village, is set to be a coveted address. The 49-apartment block takes design cues from Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who championed “seductive and sexy” buildings.

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Coveted items included Line Vautrin and Piero Fornasetti mirrors, furniture by Jacques Adnet and George Nakashima and Jean Besnard ceramics.